User`s guide
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Connecting and Disconnecting the NoTouch™ drive
Use the USB 2.0 cable to connect the NoTouch
™
external drive to any free USB port of your PC or
notebook.
Enable & Disable Encryption of the drive
CAUTION! The Aes Lock software uses your password to electronically lock and unlock
your drive. If you forget your password, you will not be able to access the data that is
on your drive or write new data to it. You will have to erase the drive before you can
use it again.
The following steps need to format your external hard drive and the partition utility will delete all
the data from your external hard drive. Before following the procedure, it is strongly recommend
you to copy all the data from your external hard drive to your local drive.
IMPORTANT : After you have created a password, the drive can only be unlocked by a
user logged on to the computer with administrative privileges. This is not usually
possible on computers at hotels, libraries, or Internet kiosks. If you need to use the
drive on such computers, do not create a password to lock your drive.
How to Enable Encryption Feature
You should password protect your drive if you are worried that someone else will gain access to
your drive and you do not want them to be able to access your content on the drive.
The default NoTouch™ Elite NT2800 external hard drive enclosure comes without encryption. To
create a password and keep others from accessing the files on your drive, follow the following
steps;